Napolitano: "Here's my enforcement strategy. It's multitiered: It's manpower. It's technology. It's equipment. And in my budget I'm going to put the money not only to do it but sustain it over time. Unlike my predecessors' budgets, my budgets every year will call on the Department of Homeland Security and ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and local law enforcement at the border to be properly resourced so that we have continual operational control at the border."

Dallas Morning News Fresh turmoil ends Felipe Calderón's 2nd year as Mexican presidentNovember was not kind to Felipe Calderón, as he completes today the second year of a difficult presidency that promised education, jobs and security. -- The month brought fresh levels of violence, scandal and economic malaise that threaten the well-being of not just Mexicans, but also Texans...

Cliff Kincaid -- Family Security Matters Doublespeak and American Socialism“Mortgage Rates Fall as U.S. Expands Rescue” was the page-one headline in the November 26th Wall Street Journal. The story concerned a promise from federal officials to “pump” another $800 billion into the economy, bringing the grand total of the cost of various bailouts to something over $8 trillion...

Mike Cutler -- Family Security Matters Immigration fraud involved in creation of alleged terror group?A recent ABC report should be of concern to all Americans and to our elected leaders. It regards Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is believed to have committed a suicide bombing in Somalia and  even more disturbing  may have been involved in the recruitment of young men of Somali descent here in the United States...

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Sides get set to lobby Barack Obama for immigration policy changesImmigration rallies are planned. E-mail blasts have started to go out. And advocates have already penned an open letter to president-elect Barack Obama. -- He is about seven weeks away from taking office, but advocates on all sides of the immigration debate are gearing up to lobby for changes in the country's immigration laws. They want Obama to make it a priority.

CNN scBush says some voters backed Obama 'because of me'President Bush told an interviewer that his presidency may have helped Barack Obama win the White House. -- "I think it was a repudiation of Republicans," he told Charlie Gibson of ABC News, according to a transcript released by the network Monday...

Public Opinion -- Chambersburg, PennsylvaniaFalse ID nets jail time for Mexican invaderA resident of Mexico who has been living illegally in Chambersburg pleaded guilty in Franklin County Central Court recently to [using] false identification. -- Victor Gabriel Baldemar-Garcia, 25, was sentenced by Judge Carol Van Horn to between time already served and 12 months in Franklin County Jail...

Donald A. Collins -- VDare.comDem hopes DHS Secretary nominee Napolitano doesn't get her waySadly, we get a good forecast of the possible future of immigration reform in the Obama Administration from Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, who is likely to be President Obama's Homeland Security Secretary. -- On November 24, 2008, the National Journal posted an excerpt from its 2007 interview with Janet Napolitano...

Clarksville (Tennessee) Online New immigration law change seeks exclusion of Sharia LawDuring the 110th Congress, Rep. Tom Tancredo, (R-CO) introduced HR 6975, known as the Jihad Prevention Act. He introduced this legislation shortly after the United Kingdom voted to isanction the inclusion of Sharia Law into the English Law system. Tancredo's bill would require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia Law System in the United States.

Washington PostWarning!: Pentagon to detail troops to "bolster domestic security"The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. -- The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding...

American Patrol Report CommentaryWhy Mexicans decapitate peopleRecently we have seen horrific reports of Mexican gangsters torturing and beheading their victims. We really shouldn't be surprised as this behavior is part of Mexico's culture. One reason the Aztecs lost to Cortez (but not they only one) is that they preferred to take prisoners alive...

Associated Press 9 headless bodies found in Mexican border cityTijuana, BCN, Mex. -- The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said...

Palm Springs Desert SunDems pressed on immigration laws...Democrats "now have a clear shot at governing," said Cecilia Muñoz of the National Council of La Raza. "If the immigration question is still festering two or four years from now, people are going to (doubt) what they can deliver. ... Democrats will have to do more than not sound like Republicans."

John P. Connolly -- Philadelphia Bulletin Obama fomenting a constitutional crisisControversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation...

Peter Hitchens -- London Daily Mail The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on EarthAnyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell  or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead. -- The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception...

Mark Krikorian -- Center for Immigration StudiesSi se puedeIn what is described as Obama's "first major Hispanic appointment," Cecilia Muñoz, one of the top people at La Raza, has been named director of intergovernmental affairs. Since her job is to oversee relations with state and local governments, there's obviously not going to be much encouragement from the White House for state and local cooperation in immigration enforcement.

Frontera NorteSur -- New Mexico State University -- Las Cruces, New Mexico A 'migrant' exodus?...As the economic crisis deepened this year, scattered reports from Mexican border cities appeared to confirm predictions of a mass exodus, whether due to the deportations by US immigration authorities or because of the ill economic winds blowing from the ruins of Wall Street. In Reynosa, Tamaulipas...

Dallas Morning News Fresh turmoil ends Felipe Calderón's 2nd year as Mexican presidentNovember was not kind to Felipe Calderón, as he completes today the second year of a difficult presidency that promised education, jobs and security. -- The month brought fresh levels of violence, scandal and economic malaise that threaten the well-being of not just Mexicans, but also Texans...

Brenda Walker -- VDare.comThe unbearably sniffly plight of Guatemalans without a scamHere's a sob story with above-average arrogance and stupidity: it concerns the unhappy state of poor Hispanic foreigners who can't wangle a legal way to immigrate --- As if immigration were some sort of universal right. -- As Steve Sailer has pointed out, there are five billion persons on this planet who live in countries poorer than Mexico...

Allan J. Favish -- American Thinker Another Barack in the wallUsually, children's books do not scare me. But I just read a children's book entitled "Barack" by Jonah Winter, with illustrations by AG Ford, published on September 30, 2008 by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. "Barack's" dust jacket states that it is for children ages 4-7. This book scared me very much...

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -- Ontario, Calif. Joe 'MEChA-Boy' Baca pushing 'immigration reform'Buoyed by the election of Barack Obama and a larger Democratic majority in Congress, Latino political and community leaders say the time is right to push for a major overhaul of immigration laws. -- Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, said immigration reform will be "one of our top priorities" after Obama takes office Jan. 20...

Right Side News -- Kennesaw, GeorgiaUpdate on Barack Obama's birth certificate issueHawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the childs birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence. The parents would be issued a Certification of Live Birth...

Joseph Farah -- WorldNetDaily.comLast chance for Constitution?Most Americans don't realize it yet, but this Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court will review whether Barack Obama is indeed constitutionally eligible to become the next president. -- The justices will hold a conference on the question and consider the case for formal review...

L. A. WatchdogThose who ignore history are doomed to repeat itThe "expert analysts" are trying to figure out how a little known far left senator who palled around with the most repugnant human beings managed to win a presidential election to soon become the most powerful leader in the world...